Man dreams of living the life of the elite social class and of the power and admiration inherent within. F. Scott Fitzgerald comes to terms with this American dream in The Great Gatsby, a novel about social life in the 1920’s. The social hierarchy of the times plays a very important role in this novel. Here Fitzgerald illustrates three specific social classes: old money, new money, and lower class, with old money and new money …showed first 75 words of 596 total…

…showed last 75 words of 596 total…illusion of this corrupted dream. To be of old money opens all doors, allowing you to do anything you want to anyone you want, to act without conscience, and to let others take responsibility for your actions. This portrays their perverted picture of the "way life should be." This illusion of the American dream can only harm its believers and all those who aspire to attain it. Bibliography The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald